Support for OCI Network Load Balancers

Summary:

Container Engine for Kubernetes now supports OCI network load balancers (NLBs). You can now define Kubernetes services that automatically provision NLBs.

Content (required):

• Load-balance traffic among Kubernetes pods with high throughput and low latency.
• Preserve source and destination IP addresses and ports.
• Handle TCP and UDP traffic in the applications you deploy.

Version (include the version you are using, if applicable):

To provision a network load balancer for a Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer, add the following annotation in the metadata section of the manifest file:

oci.oraclecloud.com/load-balancer-type: "nlb"

For example:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: my-nginx-svc
  labels:
    app: nginx
  annotations:
    oci.oraclecloud.com/load-balancer-type: "nlb"
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
  - port: 80
  selector:
    app: nginx